Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
Ronalyn V. Olea or Len to her colleagues loves to brew coffee strong enough to keep everyone in the newsroom awake. She’s a vegan and a bike commuter, braving the chaos of the road to get to meetings and errands.
The Howard government - which faced the Australian electorate as voters went to the polls Nov. 24 - had been running a massive taxpayer-funded advertising blitz happily endorsed by some media. BY ANIBETH DESIERTO / PHILIPPINE-AUSTRALIA CAUCUS FOR PEACE** ANALYSIS...
"The NDFP remains open to the resumption of formal peace talks... But the current anti-national and anti-people policies, the gross human rights violations, the scandals of corruption, do not provide grounds for optimism." - Luis Jalandoni, chairman, NDFP...
To students and parents being burdened by annual tuition increases, a bill filed in Senate for the purpose of regulating these increases is a welcome development. But there are enough loopholes in the proposed bill that can defeat the very purpose for which it was...
Public utility vehicle operators and drivers are facing a bleak Christmas with the latest oil price increase, said a transport group as it aired its sentiments against the government policy of downstream oil industry deregulation. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch...
The Arroyo government has so far been able to rely on its lowly representatives in the House to block all efforts to impeach it; its old but loyal allies in Senate to keep investigations in check; and the chain of command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and...
Botong did murals on historical events, myths, and national heroes – now safe subjects; what the Neo-Angono artists rendered in their now defiled mural is contemporary truth –the social and political reality largely attributable to the person the NPC board wanted...
Any ruling regime should quake at being accused -- much more proven -- as one that cannot be trusted to execute foreign-funded projects reasonably “free” of corruption. The fact that the World Bank has taken official notice, enough to investigate and to suspend the...
Australian unions are turning out to be at the forefront of the fight for OFWs brought into Australia under the Liberal government’s notorious S457 visa scheme. Filipino migrant workers in turn are making history in Australian labour records. BY ANIBETH DESIERTO...
Luisito Bustamante had two stories to tell about his ordeal under the custody of the military. He admitted before the court, during the hearing of a writ of amparo filed by his family, that he was a member of the NPA and that he was not tortured. But minutes after...
ILPS Supports the Strikes of Both the WGA and the Stagehands of For-Profit Broadway Against the Biggest and Greediest Media Behemoths in History BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON CHAIRPERSON, INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES' STRUGGLE...
Asian Catholic student leaders vowed to take on the fight of the Cordillera’s indigenous peoples for the recognition of their human rights in a press conference last week that capped a week-long conference in La Tridinad, Benguet. BY KIM QUITASOL Northern Dispatch...
In his 2005 inaugural address, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would support democratic movements around the world and work to end tyranny. Furthermore, he pledged to those struggling for freedom that the United States would "not ignore...
Cordillera indigenous peoples and workers' groups condemned the mine safety week celebrations of the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MGB-DENR), saying that large-scale corporate mining is unsafe. BY KIM QUITASOL...
Para sa mga kumikita ng dolyar tulad ng overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), sa unang tingin ay hindi mainam ang nangyayari ngayong paglakas ng piso kumpara sa dolyar. NI DANILO ARANA ARAO Konteksto/Pinoy Weekly Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VI, No. 42, November...
As the family of Marilou Ranario, an OFW in death row in Kuwait, awaits for the promulgation of the decision of the Kuwait's highest court on November 27, they hope that she would eventually be released. They fear that Marilou would not be able to survive life...
BY TYRONE VELEZ Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 42, November 24-December 1, 2007 the gods would disturb your sleep since you have disturbed their waking they take your body and probe every marrow, every bone, every scar, real or imaginary and claim a crime was...
NI OLIVER CARLOS Inilathala ng Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 42, November 25-December 1, 2007 Natuyo na ang tinta ng nagdadalamhating pluma. Pahagulgol kung umihip, at tila nakikiluha ang hangin sa umaalmang papel. Malamlam… aandap-andap ang munting ilawan......
The viewing deck of Liberty Park in Jersey City lays serene as it awaits an approaching rain while the grey sky casts a gloomy brush on Manhattan's skyline. New York looks desolate but not till you feel its subway sounds, of millions of feet rushing to work, and...
This is the second year a People’s Impeachment Complaint was filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Although the first impeachment complaint against President Arroyo was filed in 2005, the first filed by individuals and organizations identified with the...
A two-month old baby boy, his parents and grandfather were abducted allegedly by soldiers on the night of October 28 in Quezon province. The baby’s great grandfather filed a Writ of Amparo to save his kin from the fate suffered by the disappeared. By Dabet...
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